Richard Rorty on Pragmatism & Truth

Richard Rorty discusses his own postmodern conception of pragmatism, neopragmatism. This is a version of a re-upload. The clips all come from the documentary "Of Beauty and Consolation".

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[mirellalastar]

That clear, straightforward answer was helpful. I loved how he broke it down to make it digestible for everyone but still used essential technical terms to connect to what we already know in epistemology.

[ericv]

I miss Rorty, a voice of moderation sadly absent now in this post-literate age of extremism.

[communication]

Great clip. Thanks. Feels like I'm hearing stuff that's excellent. It's clicking. Though I feel still a doffing of the cap to reductionism and the power of science as seen in pure logic and inhuman thinking.

[allthingsgardencad]

scratch a pragmatist and you get a broken logical positivist

[shanonsnyder]

He says the Greeks were trying to get away from the miseries of life and couldn't imagine a better existence as the main motivation for their belief in the eternal. Despite the fact that Plato and Aristotle in particular were part of the wealthy nobility. Life couldn't have been better for them. So that explanation makes absolutely no sense.

[Khuno]

Says a bunch of stuff about the concept of truth including some use rules and maintains that nothing can be said about it...proceeds with justification being relative as a condition of inteligibility (which beliefs can be unjustified but true and justified yet false IS true) and says that isn't true...

[SleezDeez]

How would you justify what it means to make the lives of your descendants better?

[paulmclean]

... so don't waste time delving into escapist bullshit that takes you away from stuff that is actually as real and present as it's ever been and that is ever going to be ...

[IKnowNeonLights]

I really like this pragmatism thing.

Pragmatism!

If it works, why bother, bother it.

There seem to be a "little" problem with its current existence!!!

That of!!!

For whom.

So much of a problem, that it took pragmatist's quite a long time to have a reform and not a revolution about the risks of smoking.
(After the theory of evolution was "completely understood that is")

I would have said slavery, but I don't want to be that much of a pragmatist.

On the other hand if you trace it's origin's back to pre socratic/Persian-Babylonian philosophy!!

Then pragmatism simply works.
Meaning!

If nature works for everyone, why bother it, why bother extra to make it work only for who?!

If human nature works for everyone, why bother it, why bother extra to make it work for who?!

The clue is in this!!

If in the culture of Socrates, Aristotle and Plato some of the most important god's are women, and not even weapons or war are out of their reach nor forbidden!!!!

Then the complete dislike of women that is claimed, might not originate from the culture of Socrates Aristotle and Plato, but a culture that claims to be that, and by doing so for a very long time, it did manage to be that in the end.
(Or such says Zarathustra)

That is pragmatism for whom and not simply pragmatism for everyone.

[davidturner]

he just said a whole lot of absolutely NOTHING....wow

[atomisten]

wtf is he talking about. there is an objective truth in 99, 99% of cases. the rest 0, 01% is metaphysical/theoretical or where there is not enough evidence to determine the truth. what's the point of muddying the worth truth when there is obviously an objective truth. we might just not be able to observe it all the time.